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First Aired: September 30th, 1984
Status: Ended
Network: Syndication
Summary: Tales from the Darkside is an anthology horror TV series created by George A. Romero, each episode was an individual short story that ended with a plot twist. The series' episodes spanned the genres of horror, science fiction, and fantasy, and some episodes featured elements of black comedy or more lighthearted themes.
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# of Episodes: 89
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Season 4
Episode 1: Beetles
Air Date: September 27th, 1987
Summary: An Egyptologist working on a sarcophogus ignores a curse and meets a horrific fate when he ignores it.
Episode 2: Mary, Mary
Air Date: October 4th, 1987
Summary: A woman who lives with mannequins because she is unable to deal with real people gets a rude awakening.
Episode 3: The Spirit Photographer
Air Date: October 11st, 1987
Summary: Despite the discouragement of his friend, a middle-aged photographer, Algernon, tries to captures spirits on film.
Episode 4: The Moth
Air Date: October 18th, 1987
Summary: Sybil, a woman on the verge of death, is obsessed with the thought that after she dies her soul will dwell within a moth, and she begs her mother to hold the moth until she can be restored to life.
Episode 5: No Strings
Air Date: October 25th, 1987
Summary: A mobster who has finally defeated his old rival hires a reluctant puppeteer to string up his rival and make it dance for him. The mobster is unaware that puppet and puppeteer both have agendas of their own...
Episode 6: The Grave Robber
Air Date: November 1st, 1987
Summary: In this comedic episode, two treasure hunters discover a lost Egyptian tomb and accidentally revive a mummy. The mummy, Tapok, doesn't try to strangle them, but rather challenges the male explorer to a game of strip poker. The explorer loses, and with each piece of clothing he loses he takes on more of Tapok's wrappings until finally Tapok transfers his curse and leaves with the other explorer.
Episode 7: The Yattering and Jack
Air Date: November 8th, 1987
Summary: A normal, everyday, plain-as-day man, Jack Polo, lives a normal, everyday life...despite the fact that strange poltergeist-like events occur around him. He seems oblivious to everything bad around him. We soon realize that a small demon, a Yattering, has been sent to torment him because his mother was a witch. The Yattering's boss tells him he can do anything he wants as long as he doesn't touch Jack. Jack's daughter comes to visit, and she is surprised at both the host of strange occurrences (including an animated Christmas turkey) that occur, and her father's increasingly strident attempts to deny anything amiss. His motto: ""Que Sara Sara"". Finally, driven out of its mind with desperation, the Yattering touches Jack...which makes him his willing servant. Jack knew of the demon's plans all along, and that he hoped to trick it into touching him. Now he is safe from Hell's revenge, and has a new servant in the process.
Episode 8: Seymourlama
Air Date: November 15th, 1987
Summary: Much to his parents' frustration, a spoiled young boy, Seymour, is declared the High Lama by a group of monks.
Episode 9: Sorry, Right Number
Air Date: November 22nd, 1987
Summary: Katie receives a mysterious phone call from a woman warning about her husband's death...but he isn't dead yet. Katie ignores the phone call, and her husband dies. At the funeral, a despairing Katie calls up herself...and finds herself talking to...herself. She tries to warn her past self, despite knowing that it won't do any good, then collapses in despair.
Episode 10: Payment Overdue
Air Date: February 14th, 1988
Summary: Michael, a heartless collection agent, finds out that Jeanette doesn't quite understand the rules of going into debt, and has some unpleasant problems as a result.
Episode 11: Love Hungry
Air Date: February 21st, 1988
Summary: Betsy, an overweight woman, receives an anonymous package with an earpiece that will supposedly help her diet. It transmits the ""voices"" of her food as is being eaten, but Betsy still has problems and the next gift is a pair of glasses that let her ""see"" her food as well...
Episode 12: The Deal
Air Date: February 28th, 1988
Summary: Screenwriter Tom Dash unwittingly makes a deal with the Devil and finds he must get out of it by finding a new victim or offer up his soul.
Episode 13: The Apprentice
Air Date: May 1st, 1988
Summary: Jane is hired by a Puritan museum but ends up mysteriously going back in time where she is forced to work as a near slave in the past.
Episode 14: The Cutty Black Sow
Air Date: May 8th, 1988
Summary: On her deathbed, Jamie's great grandmother tells him the tale of a Celtic demon, the Cutty Black Sow, that comes to claim the soul of anyone dying that night, and Jamie vows to protect her soul from the beast.
Episode 15: Do Not Open This Box
Air Date: May 15th, 1988
Summary: An aged inventor and his wife come into possession of a box marked ""Do not open this box."" The wife opens it and finds it empty. The next day a man comes to claim the box and the lady makes up a story about losing the box. The man begins giving them nice things in exchange for eventually getting the box back. The couple begin living the sweet life thanks to the stranger but when they finally give the box back, the man tells them that it contained a human soul - since the box was opened the soul has escaped and now the man needs a replacement.
Episode 16: Family Reunion
Air Date: May 22nd, 1988
Summary: Janice, a young mother, swears to a social worker, Trudy, that her husband Robert kidnapped their son Bobby six months ago and she hasn't seen either of them since. Trudy agrees to find the father and son, but discovers that everything isn't what she was led to believe.
Episode 17: Going Native
Air Date: June 19th, 1988
Summary: An alien is sent to Earth to study the nature and behavior of human beings. The alien, who resembles a normal Earth female, meticulously studies photographs of still life from large cities, simultaneously fascinated with and disgusted by the disarray and degeneration depicted in the pictures. The alien joins a therapeutic support group in an effort to better understand the seemingly contradictory humans. As she develops personal relationships with each group member, she begins to further understand the origin of and reasons for the behavior of humans, albeit from an outside observer's vantage point. The other members of the group see the alien as distant and detached, a condition that they assume is rooted in a self-denial complex. As the alien speaks at one of the group meetings, she suddenly realizes that she has been experiencing the exact same feelings as the humans that she has been studying. She has become human-like through assimilation, trapped within the emotional shell of ano
Episode 18: Hush
Air Date: July 10th, 1988
Summary: A babysitter is called in to take care of a sick boy. As a game, the two make up a pretend creature out of household parts, one that eats sounds. The creature comes to life, sucking the sound and the life out of everything in the house. The two try to evade it, but the boy's uncontrollable coughing gives him away. The creature then becomes sensitive enough to the girl's heartbeat to find and kill her too, then goes out into the world for more ""food"".
Episode 19: Barter
Air Date: July 17th, 1988
Summary: A mother tries to get a reprieve from her noisy drums-practicing son by making a deal with an ammonia-seeking alien.
Episode 20: Basher Malone
Air Date: July 23rd, 1988
Summary: A wrestler seeking one great opponent finds himself tricked into fighting a demon from Hell.
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